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Australia To Block BitTorrent 674

Posted by CmdrTaco from the who-saw-that-coming dept.
Kevin 7Kbps writes "Censorship Minister Stephen Conroy announced today that the Australian Internet Filters will be extended to block peer-to-peer traffic, saying, 'Technology that filters peer-to-peer and BitTorrent traffic does exist and it is anticipated that the effectiveness of this will be tested in the live pilot trial.' This dashes hopes that Conroy's Labor party had realised filtering could be politically costly at the next election and were about to back down. The filters were supposed to begin live trials on Christmas Eve, but two ISPs who volunteered have still not been contacted by Conroy's office, who advised, 'The department is still evaluating applications that were put forward for participation in that pilot.' Three days hardly seems enough time to reconfigure a national network."
Music

At Atlantic Records, Digital Sales Surpass CDs 273

Posted by kdawson from the trading-analog-dollars-for-digital-pennies dept.
The NYTimes reports that Atlantic is the first major label to report getting a majority of its revenue from digital sales, not CDs. Analysts say that Atlantic is out in front — the industry as a whole isn't expected to hit the 50% mark until 2011. By 2013, music industry revenues will be 37% down from their 1999 levels (when Napster arrived on the scene), according to Forrester. "'It's not at all clear that digital economics can make up for the drop in physical,' said John Rose, a former executive at EMI ... Instead, the music industry is now hoping to find growth from a variety of other revenue streams it has not always had access to, like concert ticket sales and merchandise from artist tours. ... In virtually all... corners of the media world, executives are fighting to hold onto as much of their old business as possible while transitioning to digital — a difficult process that NBC Universal's chief executive ... has described as 'trading analog dollars for digital pennies.'"
Security

Submission + - Cambridge researchers break chip-and-pin... again (lightbluetouchpaper.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Now-infamous University of Cambridge security researchers Ross Anderson, Saar Drimer, and Steven Murdoch, who last year showed us Tetris on a payment terminal, have now shown how a paperclip can be used to bypass the UK banks' snake-oil "tamper-resistance" in their paper at the IEEE Security and Privacy conference. Why does this matter? Because the banks were sticking their customers with the bills when cloned cards were used, since the system was supposed to be invulnerable. Despite the banks' claims, the devices weren't even certified! The BBC featured the attack on the news last night. Hopefully this will lead to thousands of customers getting their money back.

Comment Re:vista only (Score 1) 540

by james_a_craig (#21908512) Attached to: HD Monitor Causes DRM Issues with Netflix
There's no such thing as "properly scaling" between 720 and 766/768 (I think the hardware resolution's 766 not 768 if I remember right; either way, 2 pixels don't matter - the video mode on the PC is certainly 768 though). They're far too close together to scale without beat frequency issues. Not accepting the native resolution I'd agree is a definite failing of the product, but I honestly can't criticize the scaler - it does as good a job as can reasonably be expected i.e. bloody awful. At the end of the day, to scale between these resolutions means inserting 48 extra lines into the display *somewhere*. It doesn't matter how nicely you do this, or how intelligent the algorithm, it's still going to mess up display of text or any fine-detailed horizontal pattern.

The inability to set the native resolution I suspect may be part of some misguided effort to avoid confusing anything connected to it - at least it's safe to tell games consoles etc. that it does 720p and 1080p; I assume they'd ignore an extra 768 resolution, but I wouldn't be too amazed if that messed something up on some product somewhere.

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