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Submission + - BBC told Windows DRM is not enough

Submitted by
Richard Fairhurst
Richard Fairhurst writes: "The trustees who govern the British broadcaster have demanded that its new video-on-demand service mustn't be Windows-only. The BBC Trust says the new iPlayer must be "platform-agnostic within a reasonable timeframe", explaining: "This requires the BBC to develop an alternative DRM framework to enable users of other technology, for example, Apple and Linux, to access the on-demand services.""
Biotech

Journal Journal: Teen discovers potential therapy for AIDS-associated disease

Journal by Scott7477
A 17-year-old Indian-American student at the Mississippi Institute of Mathematics and Science has identified a molecule that can inhibit the growth of a bacteria that causes a disease which can be deadly to people who have AIDS, cancer, or cystic fibrosis, according to a story posted at VOA News. According to the article, the student intends to publish her results to the public r
Music

Submission + - Teen Accuses Record Companies of Collusion

Submitted by jas_public
jas_public writes: WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A 16-year-old boy being sued by five record companies accusing him of online music piracy accused the recording industry on Tuesday of violating antitrust laws, conspiring to defraud the courts and making extortionate threats.

In papers responding to the record companies' lawsuit, Robert Santangelo, who was as young as 11 when the alleged piracy occurred, denied ever disseminating music and said it's impossible to prove that he did.

Santangelo is the son of Patti Santangelo, the 42-year-old suburban mother of five who was sued by the record companies in 2005. She refused to settle, took her case public and became a heroine to supporters of Internet freedom.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MUSIC_DOWNL OAD_SUIT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTI ME=2007-01-31-00-46-59
Television

Submission + - Huge TVs: The War of Inches

Submitted by anthemaniac
anthemaniac writes: Sharp announced a 108-inch LCD TV at the CES this month in what's become an incremental war of diagonal inches and competing formats, according to a LiveScience article. Experts disagree whether this is it or if there are larger screens to come. Given the cost ... $70,000 or so ... one analyst says the only reason to make them bigger is for validation. Another says making bigger panels drives down production costs. Plus you get the buzz factor. And, it turns out, they're even selling some.

New iPod Owner Onslaught Overwhelms iTunes 395

Posted by Zonk from the drowning-in-white-plastic dept.
Billosaur writes "In the post-Christmas rush to power up and use their new iPods, an onslaught of downloaders brought iTunes to its knees, according to CNN. Monday and Tuesday saw users posting message after message about slow downloads and the iTunes site denying them entry. The heavy traffic was apparently more than the system could bear, what with the large numbers of people receiving iPods and iTunes gift cards. Perhaps Apple was underestimating just how successful they were going to be?"
United States

Submission + - FDA: Cloned Food Safe to Eat

Submitted by friedo
friedo writes: After five years of research, the Food and Drug Administration has reached the rather obvious conclusion that meat and milk from cloned animals is safe to eat.
Enlightenment

Submission + - Gadgets spawn white lies

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Wonder how this affects politicians? The research by UK pollsters 72 Point found that "techno-treachery" was widespread with nearly 75 percent of people saying gadgets like Blackberrys made it easier to fib. Just over half of respondents said using gadgets made them feel less guilty when telling a lie than doing it face to face, the study on behalf of financial services group Friends Provident found. The workplace was a favorite location for fibbing with 67 percent of the 1,487 respondents admitting they had lied at work. The top lie was pretending to be ill (43 percent) followed by saying work had been completed when it hadn't (23 percent). Worryingly for bosses 18 percent said they lied to hide a big mistake. But, employers were not the only ones on the receiving end of disingenuous statements. Just over 40 percent said they had lied to their family or partner. Key topics to lie about were; buying new clothes or the cost of them (37 percent), how good someone looked in something (35 percent) how much they had eaten (35 percent) and drunk (31 percent) and how much they weighed (32 percent). The survey found that while people were dishonest, most told lies with the best intentions and to spare others' feelings.
Education

Submission + - 100 things we didn't know last year

Submitted by
gollum123
gollum123 writes: "The BBC news magazine is runnnig a compilation of the interesting and sometimes downright unexpected facts that we did not know last year, but now know ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/index.h tml#a007948 ). some examples — There are 200 million blogs which are no longer being updated, say technology analysts. Urban birds have developed a short, fast "rap style" of singing, different from their rural counterparts. The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions. Online shoppers will only wait an average of four seconds for an internet page to load before giving up. just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 litre bottles. More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors. For every 10 successful attempts to climb Mount Everest there is one fatality. The word "time" is the most common noun in the English language, according to the latest Oxford dictionary. Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobiacs is the term for people who fear the number 666. The egg came first. Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger."
Input Devices

Submission + - Best / Worst Computer Mice and Keyboards

Submitted by
ThinSkin
ThinSkin writes: "ExtremeTech closes off the year by reflecting on the best and worst computer mice and keyboards of the year and yesteryear. In their mouse shootout, they include categories such as "best gaming mouse" and "best ergonomic mouse," among others. And for their keyboard shootout, they also choose their favorite gaming keyboards, as well as media center keyboards, generic keyboards, and gamepads. It's an interesting look at the latest trends and advancements in mice and keyboards in case you've overlooked them in the past year."
User Journal

Journal Journal: Cartoons and Anime

Journal by msobkow

The best of north american "cartoons" are right up there with Japanese anime, though the anime artists do a lot more material targetted at the adult audience.

Some like "Tiny Toons" are just rife with multiple levels of meaning. :)

Who is the fool? "Pinky" or "The Brain"? Perhaps the allegory of "Brain" was incorrect. Perhaps "Groo" is the most fitting of all.

Wireless Networking

Submission + - etiquette for stealing wireless

Submitted by
nathandbos
nathandbos writes: "How rude is it to use a neighbor's open wireless access point without permission? I'm staying at my in-laws over the holidays and they don't have a reliable broadband connection. So I've been using an open connection that presumably belongs to one of the neighbors, although I don't know which one. It could be one of seven houses in the vicinity, and I really don't feel like knocking on all of their doors to ask a question most of them wouldn't understand. I don't know any way to figure out who they are electronically.

So I'm just wondering, how much of a social affront is this? I'll propose a bad-neighbor scale that runs from:

1= turning around in neighbor's driveway after 11PM

6= failing to pick up dog poo on their lawn

10= running off with spouse

Where on this scale is using an open wireless connection?"
Puzzle Games (Games)

Submission + - Cheater Checkmated.

Submitted by HockeyPuck
HockeyPuck writes: An Indian chessplayer was recently banned from competing in chess tournaments for 10 years for using a bluetooth enabled hat to communicate with accomplices outside who were using a chess program to determine his moves.
Television

Submission + - Plasma or LCD?

Submitted by WeeBit
WeeBit writes: I saw a news article on why you should buy Plasma instead of LCD TV's. The article is located here: Buy Plasma It just sparked my interest. Flat panel TV's have the market now. Our analog TV's are on their way out. I am sure many will be thinking of purchasing their new Flat panel within the next couple years. Have you given this any thought? Which do you prefer Plasma or LCD? Why? A maker of the Plasma, Panasonic was clear to point out their reasons to go with Plasma. They sell both the Plasma and the LCD. They have been pushing ads that sell the consumer on the plasma TV's over the LCD's. You can read this here: Plasma vs lcd Is this a good argument? Or just hype? Do you still plan to go with a LCD, or do you plan to purchase a Plasma?

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