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Submission + - Legal guitar tabs return to the 'Net

Submitted by Guitar Hero on Monday April 02, 2007 @01:18PM

Guitar Hero writes: Guitar players will soon be able to access guitar tablatures online, thanks to an agreement between the Music Publishers Association and Musicnotes. Popular and free online guitar tab sites were shut down last summer after the MPA said that the sites — which were built on the contributions of individual guitar players — infringed on their copyrights. The new site will go online this summer and will be ad-supported: 'the site will be making its money from users, who create and edit the tabs in question. Users get free access to legal tabs, while Musicnotes and music publishers get the cash. Will guitar players want to donate their time and energy to propping up The Man? Probably, if the site is slick, enough publishers sign on, and everything is fast and simple to use.'

Submission + - Windows Vista restricts GNU GCC apps to 32 MB

Submitted by

Dave Coffin

on Monday April 02, 2007 @01:05PM

Dave Coffin writes: "In Windows Vista, applications that don't link the Win32 API cannot use more than 32 MB of RAM. This affects all executables generated by GNU compilers. No such limit exists in earlier versions of Windows, and no work-around has yet been found. See http://www.trnicely.net/misc/vista.html for details."

Submission + - The Supremes say CO2 can be regulated by EPA

Submitted by

wattsup

on Monday April 02, 2007 @01:04PM

wattsup writes: "While the Science is apparently still not settled, the Supreme Court has ruled in a split 5-4 decision, that the Environmental Protection Agency can begin the process of creating regulations for automobile emitted CO2. The overall tone of the 5-4 decision, written by the liberal wing of the court, showed concern for global warming and respect for the worries voiced by Massachusetts and other states about diminished coast line and other atmospheric problems associated with warmer temperatures. Greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the landmark environmental law, Justice John Paul Stevens said in his majority opinion. I wonder what's next. CO2 taxes on soda pop?"

Submission + - Divergent Species Use Same Genes to Different Ends

Submitted by

webdoodle

on Monday April 02, 2007 @12:59PM

webdoodle writes: "Using fruit flies and wasp's which diverged into two separate species 250 million years ago, scientists look at how two distinct species use the same genes to their own distinct uses."

Feed Nokia Siemens Network struggles out the gate (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Monday April 02, 2007 @12:52PM

Joint venture between Nokia and Siemens gets off the ground--but it's already warning profits won't grow much in 2007.

Canadian Broadcasters Seek New Internet Regulation 171

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday April 02, 2007 @12:46PM from the new-interference-commission dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Michael Geist's weekly Toronto Star column reports that the Canadian broadcasting community, including broadcasters, copyright collectives, and actor labor unions, are all calling on Canada's broadcast regulator to increase its regulation of the Internet. Some groups want sites such as YouTube to be subject to Canadian content requirements, while the broadcasters want to stop U.S. broadcasters from streaming television shows online into Canada."

Submission + - 'Selfish DNA' driving insecticide resistance

Submitted by

webdoodle

on Monday April 02, 2007 @12:43PM

webdoodle writes: "Genes that can mutate rapidly inside a genome gives some bugs twice the resistance to insecticides."

Submission + - PC side of Mac vs. PC commercials

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02, 2007 @12:36PM

An anonymous reader writes: Searching on Yahoo video finds a PC version of the PC vs. Mac commercials. http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?ei=UTF-8&gid=252 295&vid=321166&b=2 http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?ei=UTF-8&gid=252 295&vid=321175&b=1 http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?ei=UTF-8&gid=252 295&vid=321182&b=0

Feed Google updates maps after Katrina 'airbrushing' incident (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Monday April 02, 2007 @12:32PM

Under fire for replacing post-storm images with older, higher-res shots, search giant installs 2006 aerial photographs of Gulf Coast region.

Submission + - spherebrowser

Submitted by

bob phaculty

on Monday April 02, 2007 @12:25PM

bob phaculty writes: "I found this site which has a real-time 3D file browser free (as in beer) to download and use. Its an early release, but very usable for all that . Its based on DirectX and has deli.co.us tags built in (even for local files)."

Feed Blog refuseniks facing the sack? (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Monday April 02, 2007 @12:12PM

Sony BMG UK adds blogging to the job description

We've all heard about employees being sacked for blogging. But as the fad begins to wane, will staff soon be sacked for failing to blog?

Submission + - Battlestar Galactica game - for free!

Submitted by

Lt. Cannonfodder

on Monday April 02, 2007 @11:43AM

Lt. Cannonfodder writes: "In answer to the hopes and dreams of scifi gamers everywhere, Beyond the Red Line team has released a demo of their upcoming total conversion based on the popular tv-show Battlestar Galactica. Unlike almost all other game modifications, Beyond the Red Line does not require anything else but the download itself to run and is completely free of charge.

As screenshots are the thing that usually spark the interest, take a look at these:

http://www.game-warden.com/bsg/images/screenshots/ screen13.jpg
http://www.game-warden.com/bsg/images/screenshots/ screen15.jpg
http://www.game-warden.com/bsg/images/screenshots/ screen07.jpg

More screenshots, download links and forums can be found at http://www.game-warden.com/bsg/"

Submission + - Oracle Linux adopters labelled 'idiots'

Submitted by

atbarboz

on Monday April 02, 2007 @11:40AM

atbarboz writes: "One of the first converts to Oracle's support for Linux said it has endured a public backlash since its decision to drop Red Hat.
Melbourne company Opes Prime Stockbroking told ZDNet Australia that in the weeks following its announcement to adopt Oracle Linux, upset Linux enthusiasts phoned, e-mailed and wrote about the company online to complain at the decision. "People called us out of the blue to tell us we were idiots," said Opes executive director Anthony Blumberg.
Does it behove the linux community to act like fanatics and fanboys?"

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